AI Agents Contract Job Trends in the East of England

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.19% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

AI Agents falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 595 431 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.41% 46.10% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 243 279
10th Percentile £185 £225 £203
25th Percentile £318 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +6.77% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £552
90th Percentile £681 £688 £650
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.35% -0.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 76 126
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.95 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.35 £30.34 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £66.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.29% +21.36% -15.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £84.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.45 £28.25
% change year-on-year +28.26% +25.47% +25.56%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in the East of England

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Suffolk - 4 £750 - 2
AI Agents
England

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Head of AI
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) AI Transformation
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto